Hey all,
I've recently started submitting beers to competitions. I had an american brown ale (janet's brown) do well in 2 of the 3 competitions I sent in to. In the 3rd one the judges said it was astringent and phenolic. I bottled about 12 bottles of the corny keg and tried tasting them around the competition time to see if i tasted what the judges did. All of the ones I tried were great excetpt 1 (judges said phenolic, astringent, yeasty), where I also detect a plastic flavoring of the beer and it isn't as good. Could I have gotten an infection in a few of the bottles? I thought I did a decent job of soaking in PBW and then sanitizing with saniclean and botteling with my beer gun (also cleaned and sanitized). Not sure why only a few bottles would be subject to this. Looking for any advice or opinions.